Continuous Application Delivery to WebSphere - Featuring IBM UrbanCode

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Continuous Application Delivery to WebSphere Featuring IBM Urban{Code}

Steve Boone DevOps SME and UrbanCode Sales, IBM Software, Rational


DevOps as the Optimization of the Software Delivery Pipeline

Optimizing the software delivery pipeline

• Reduce time to market

• Improve quality

• Decrease costs


The Pipeline is an Assembly Line


Balancing the Assembly Line

4

Equal process throughput

avoids backlogs

Upgrading a proceeding

process causes

downstream backlogs

Upgrading downstream

process throughput re-

establishes balance


Common patterns impacting continuous delivery

Failures due to

inconsistent dev

and production

environments

Bottlenecks trying

to deliver more

frequent releases

to meet market

demands

Complex,

manual,

processes for

release lack

repeatability and

speed

Poor visibility into

dependencies

across releases,

resources, and

teams

How do we ensure that we release and deploy

What we want, When we want, Where we want!


Our customers are facing the same challenges

*Data based on UrbanCode customer survey


Implementing a DevOps toolchain

SCM

Build / CI

Server

Unit testing

Test

Automation

Test Stubbing

Delivery

Pipeline

Environment

Configuration

Automated

Monitoring

Asset

Repository


Continuous Delivery Pipeline


Multi-tier applications introduce additional complexity

Middle Tier Server Client Tier Devices Back-end Data & Services

Coordinating separate pipelines for each tier is critical

• Disparate teams

• Different processes

• Separate tools


Systems of Engagement (SoE) Apps

Rapid

Releases AppStore Monitor

and Optimize

Release

and Deploy Develop

and Test

Inte

gra

tio

n T

est

10

Monitor

and Optimize Develop

and Test

Web Apps

Frequent

Releases

Production

Environment

Databases

Systems of Record (SoR) Apps

Fewer

Releases Databases

The need: Integrate systems of engagement with systems of record By bringing together the culture, processes, and tools across the entire

software delivery lifecycle – spanning mobile to mainframe platforms


Deployment Automation Requires a Tool That:

Defines and executes a deployment process.

Manages deployed files in an Artifact Repository

Replaces deployment scripts with integrations

Coordinates deployment of multiple tiers

Secure and scalable support for large networks

Is audit friendly

–Streamlined Approvals

–Ties a deployment to the deployed files

–Tracks which version is where

–Supports separation of duties

– Is highly traceable


Common Deployment Types

Content Deployments

– Incremental content updates

– Rollbacks

Middleware Code Deployments

– Install and rollback of code

– Run-book automation (restart, etc.)

Middleware Configuration Deployments

– Declarative description of configuration change

– Install and rollback of config change

DB Deployments

– Execution of DB change scripts in order

– Rollback


Application Deployment

Components

–Tiers or services

Environments

–Collection of targets “resources”

–Env. Specific Config

Processes

–Coordinates Component processes

Pet Shop

Content

J2EE App

MySQL DB

SIT

WEB

MID

DB

PROD

WEB

MID

DB

Tomcat

Deploy Process

Rollback Process

Restart Process


Components

Components are comprised of:

–Versions: a set of files

–Processes: automations associated with the

Components.


Application Models

Applications models are

comprised of:

–Components

–Environments:

• Named collection of servers / resources

• Each server has role(s) tied to components

–Processes: automations coordinating

Component processes


Snapshots

A Snapshot is a fixed set of Component Versions –

a “Release Candidate”

Snapshots define the intended state for a target

environment


Deploying a Snapshot, ctd

Inventory Service: knows what version is installed

and only deploys changes

New Servers: When added to an environment are

easily made to look like all other machines of its type


Deployment: Integrations (Plugins)

Repositories

– Internal: CodeStation

– External: AccuRev, ClearCase, CVS, Dimensions, Git, Harvest, Mercurial, MS TFS, Perforce, PVCS, RTC, SVN

J2EE Platforms

– WebSphere

• With DM and Stand-alone

• Cluster or Node/Server

• Start/Stop/Restart Application

• Start/Stop /Restart Server

• Install/Update /Uninstall App.

– WebSphere Message Broker

– WebLogic

– JBoss

– Tomcat

– Geronimo

BI & EAI Platforms

– Tibco

– Business Objects

– Informatica

Microsoft Platform

– MS IIS

– MS SharePoint

– MS BizTalk

– MS SQL RS

Databases

– MS SQL Server

– Oracle

– JDBC

Mainframe (z/OS)


WebSphere Integrations: Application Deployment for WebSphere

The Application Deployment for WebSphere plugin provides a number of useful steps for deploying application binaries to and performing administrative tasks for WebSphere Application Server.

The plugin also contains a number of steps related to configuration management, such as creating data sources, JMS quests, etc.

https://developer.ibm.com/urbancode/plugin/ibm-websphere-application-deployment-2/

https://developer.ibm.com/urbancode/plugin/ibm-websphere-application-deployment-2/


WebSphere Integrations: IBM Middleware Configuration for WebSphere

Configurations are stored as a template, which is a set of XML files that can be generated automatically by analyzing an exemplar WAS environment or created/modified using an XML editor.

With the MCWAS plugin, you can create configuration templates for the Cell, Cluster, Node and Server scopes.

https://developer.ibm.com/urbancode/plugin/ibm-middleware-configuration-for-websphere81/


Other WebSphere Integrations

IBM UrbanCode WebSphere Plugins https://developer.ibm.com/urbancode/plugins/ibm-urbancode-deploy/#filter=WebSphere

https://developer.ibm.com/urbancode/plugins/ibm-urbancode-deploy/#filter=WebSphere







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